I wouldn’t have had a problem with Neal’s death if it had been done right and if it had had an emotional impact on the characters, especialy on Emma, but they basically forgot about about him two episodes later when Emma spend an entire episode with Regina (SQ fanservice) and the lips curse started (CS fanservice)
Ok so this is honestly the brunt of the disagreement here. Just because they write two characters interacting with each other, does not mean they are doing a service to SQ fans. They have to write a friking story. Regina is a big part of the story with Emma since the start of the show. Just because they have time together on screen does not mean they are trying to appease shippers. You could say they are trying to appease all ships if you go down that road.
You can’t just take the two sentences I wrote out of context and generalize it to the whole series. Emma having scenes with Regina can be really great and not all of them are fanservice (mainly the ones in 1-3A). I was talking specifically about 317, two episodes after Neal died, probably two days after, and Emma doesn’t even mention him and is up and about to do some alone time with Regina, and not with her son, who just unknowingly lost his father (which is another problem I have with Neal’s death). Regina was not the main point of the post, it was more about Hook, but don’t think that Regina and Emma’s scenes don’t have a lot of subtext which their main purpose is fanservice (405 is the best examples with lines like “I wanted you to be my friend” – these are 30 year old women. 30 year old women should not talk like they are 13 years old).
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